Okay, these are recycled RHF bits, but I had not seen them before, =
and at least it is newer than the 10-year-old Reader's Digest humour =
that Tim posts. :-)

This is a brilliant example of a parody which captures both the =
spirit and the form of the original, something rarely done. Of =
course, I consider the nugi Dirge as falling into that category as =
well :-)

-- Ernie P.

In <S9a7.3be@clarinet.com> harding_gm wrote:> No, no, no. John Morrissey's post, "If God were a computer> programmer" (Message-ID <S974.35ba@clarinet.com>) was all right> as far as it went, but it didn't really capture the theological> essence of the matter.>=20> There is one, and only one, fundamental proof of the pro-> position that computers belong to the temporal rather than the> spiritual realm. If God were a computer programmer, the follow-> ing scripture would be displayed on the wall of every cubicle> in Silicon Valley:>=20> I am /unix, thine operating system, which have brought> thee forth out of thy bondage to machine code, out of> the days of the front panel; thou shalt run no other> operating system above me, beneath me, or beside me.>=20> Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven core image in> binary, nor in octal, nor in hexadecimal; thou shalt> not bow down thyself to them, nor program in them, for> my kernel is a jealous kernel, visiting the core dumps> of the parent process upon the third and fourth gener-> ations of them that defile my system calls, but shew-> ing mercy unto thousands of them who love lint and> read my man pages.>=20> Thou shalt not take the name of superuser in vain: for> /unix will not hold him guiltless that invoketh super-> user's name in vain.>=20> Remember the sabbath day, to keep me wholly archived.> Six days shalt thou edit, and do all thy compiles; but> the seventh day is the sabbath of the system admini-> strator, who shall earn time and a half therefor: In> it, thou shalt suspend all user processes, and create> my weekly tar dumps.>=20> Honour thy parent process and thy process group, that> thy connect time may be prolonged, and that thine exit> status may be zero.>=20> Thou shalt not kill init.>=20> Thou shalt not adulterate my system files.>=20> Thou shalt not steal any material proprietary to, or> under license or sublicense by, or protected by copy-> right or trademark of, Unix System Laboratories or> the vendor of thine implementation.>=20> Thou shalt not bear false witness on thy local host by> running setuid programs across the network.>=20> Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's workstation, thou> shalt not covet thy neighbour's doc set, nor his uid,> nor his gid, nor any hardware nor software that is thy> neighbour's.>=20>=20=